New Orleans woman among latest swine flu victims; deaths in La. now 14

John McCusker / The Times-PicayuneTulane law student Rachel Kagan cleans her hands in between work-outs at the Reily Center on Tulane's campus in Aug. The university has positioned hand sanitizer throughout the facility and has posted signs encouraging their use to prevent the spread of germs.

The state health department said Monday that three victims died in the past week.

The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge reports that one victim was a woman from the New Orleans area. Another was a man from the health department's Region 3, which includes St. James, St. John, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption and St. Mary parishes.

Another was from Region 4, which covers the parishes of Evangeline, St. Landry, Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Vermilion and Iberia.